xii, 627 pages ; 23 cm

A detailed study of psychology and its development concentrates on the leading personalities who have contributed to this science

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Thales to Hippocrates: before psychology -- Plato: before psychology -- Aristotle: the founding of psychology -- Theophrastus and Galen: the Hellenistic and Roman periods -- Plotinus and Augustine: the Patristic period -- Aquinas: the middle ages, reason, and faith -- Descartes: the renaissance and the beginning of the modern period -- Locke and Berkeley: British empiricism and associationism -- Kant and Herbart: continental philosophical psychology -- Fechner: Psychophysics -- Helmholtz: neural physiology -- Wundt: introspection and experiment -- Brentano and Ebbinghaus: Wundt's contemporaries and successors -- Galton: evolution and individual differences -- Binet: French psychology in the nineteenth century -- James: the beginnings of psychology in the United States -- Hall, Cattell, and Titchener: pioneers in psychology in the United States -- Watson: behaviorism -- Wertheimer: Gestalt psychology -- Freud: psychoanalysis and related views -- Psychology until 1945 -- Epilogue: just yesterday

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